Reddit is telling everyone to remember the US's 'peaceful transition of power'

There's no question that social media has played a major role in
this election.

In the case of this emotional US election, people have gone
online to say incredibly hateful things to one another as well as
to, and about, the candidates.

While Twitter and Facebook are probably the most notorious social
media sites where political tensions have been running high,
there's another site that often brings out the trolls in people:
Reddit. Reddit is a site
where people post links to stuff on the internet like news
stories, photos and videos and discuss them.

Then there's Republican nominee Donald's Trump's statements
insisting the US elections are rigged with widespread voter fraud
(even though
there's a lack of facts to justify his position). And he's
been urging citizens not just to vote, but to go to the polls and
become election "observers." This has led to an unprecedented
concern over election violence this year either
at the polls or after the polls close, if the country chooses
not to elect him.

Reddit is trying to tackle that part head-on to its users. Today,
everyone who visits Reddit gets a message that doesn't just urge
US citizens to vote, but also tells them that the "United States
celebrates the longest stretch of uninterrupted peaceful
transitions of power in the world."

The message is a reminder about how different this election has
become.

Reddit's CEO Steve Huffman, who wrote the message, even tries to
be soothing, saying that no matter the election outcome, the dust
will settle and then "we can all get back to arguing over whether
a hot dog is a sandwich. (it's not)," He's wrong, of course (it
is), but in this atmosphere of political vitriol, it's great that
he's not afraid to show it.